Keeping a Holy Lent - 15

Icon: Mother of God, Light of Darkness by William Hart McNichols


Let's turn our Lenten attention to Mary:
Mother of God,
Mother of Jesus,
Mother of us all.

This beautiful prayer, written by the creator of the icon above,
expands what we pray in one of the first prayers we all learned, the Hail Mary...

Mother of God,
Light in all darkness,
shelter Christ, our flame of hope,
with your tender hands.
And in our times of dread and nightmares,
let him be our dream of comfort.
And in our times
of physical pain and suffering,
let him be our healer.
And in our times of separation from God
and one another,
let him be our communion.

-William Hart McNichols

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